SPOTLIGHTS
RathBiotaClan Spotlights — handpicked featured science stories and highlighted research discoveries. Each Spotlight goes deeper than a news story, exploring the significance and implications of the most fascinating findings in life science.
Functional Lab-Grown Esophagus Successfully Implanted in Growing Pigs
Researchers implanted autologous, cell-seeded esophageal segments into growing minipigs. The grafts integrated with host tissue. They showed contractility, remodeling, and...
Why Scientists Are Turning to Fish Scales to Restore Human Vision
Researchers at the University of Granada tested decellularized fish scales. They used these scales to create bioartificial corneas. Laboratory and...
Psychology suggests that people who rarely post on social media aren’t antisocial or out of touch.
One study on consumer psychology and wellbeing suggests that focusing on a social media audience before posting content can detract...
Every Photo You Take May Be a Memory You Lose
Science has quietly been building a case against our most cherished digital habit. The more we photograph our lives, the...
Mammals Might Be Able to Regenerate Tissue Under the Right Conditions
Two recent Science studies challenge an old assumption. They show that mammalian regenerative failure does not stem from genetics alone. Instead, it...
When Brain Waves Sync More Tightly With Live Music
A study conducted in a Boston concert hall found that listeners' brain waves aligned more closely with musical rhythms during...
Chatbots presenting multiple viewpoints tend to be trusted more by conspiracy believers
A new study finds that conspiracy believers trust balanced AI chatbots more than anyone else does. The uncomfortable question is...
Study Reveals California squirrels are turning carnivores they’re actively hunting other animals for the first time
Something odd happened in a California park last summer. Ground squirrels the chunky, sunbathing herbivores you step around on hiking...
Are Your Bluetooth Earbuds Secretly Messing With Your Thyroid?
You slip in your wireless earbuds for a morning run, a long work call, or that binge-worthy true-crime podcast. They're...
The Animal That Evolved Intelligence Twice Without Borrowing a Single Gene From Us
A throwaway remark about "alien" biology sparked a viral myth. The reality of octopus genetics is stranger and more illuminating...
POPULAR NEWS
Chewing gum releases thousands of microplastic particles directly into your mouth with every piece you chew
Microplastics are turning up in places researchers never expected: deep-sea sediments, Arctic ice, and human blood. Now, a UCLA pilot...
Yelling Isn’t Just Yelling: How a Hostile Home Rewires a Child’s Brain for Constant Alert
To a parent in the heat of the moment, a raised voice may feel like simple frustration. To a child...
Is Gen Z the First Generation Less Intelligent Than Their Parents?
Gen Z intelligence decline is emerging as a serious concern among neuroscientists and education researchers. For over a century, each...
Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation
Scientists have copied an entire biological brain neuron by neuron and synapse by synapse and made it control a simulated...
Global Sperm Counts Have Dropped 50% in 50 Years Now 128 Men Are Racing Their Way to a $100,000 Prize to Prove the Point
A group of technology entrepreneurs is staging a competitive event in San Francisco in which semen samples from 128 men...
EDITOR CHOICE‘S
12,638 MRI Scans Confirm Men’s Brains Shrink Faster in PNAS Study
A large-scale analysis of brain scans taken over time has found that men's brains shrink faster than women's across a...
Volcanic Eruptions Can Destroy Their Own Methane — Tonga’s Plume Shows How
A study published in Nature Communications analyzed the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption's impact on methane in the atmosphere. It...
For Future Space Missions, Molecular Ecology Finally Offers a Clear Biosignature Target
When the next generation of probes scoops up dust from the icy shell of Europa or the surface of Mars,...
Scientists Say Babies May Learn to Yawn Before Birth
Mothers can spread yawns to their yet-to-be-born offspring during pregnancy, researchers report May 5 in Current Biology the first empirical evidence...
